Video Filtering: You Can Do It and for Free
June 26, 2018
YouTube has long been perceived as the crown jewel of almost anything goes online video streaming. Sure, there have been some minor problems; for example, blocking MIT instructional videos. Google is not standing still.
We learned more from a recent Vice piece, “Are You Batman? How YouTube’s Volunteer Army Gets Channels Un-Deleted.”
According to the story:
“These super-users volunteer for YouTube through a company initiative that used to be called “YouTube Heroes” but is now known as two separate programs, Trusted Flaggers and YouTube Contributors. They patrol the official YouTube Help Forum and social media, where many of them use TweetDeck to sift for keywords that signal distressed YouTubers.”
This effort for helping others via crowdsourcing is really stretching its limits in interesting ways. Another example is how coders are helping crowdsource stem cell research. Whether it is helping the unjust get reinstated to YouTube or to save lives, crowdsourcing has become a massive way for do-gooders to do good.
A large company can make good use of work from its customers. Are these Googley programs working? Instagram’s new extended video service may help answer this question.
Patrick Roland, June 25, 2018
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